There are 100's if not 1000's of bands that have but one original member left. That doesn't mean a band can't produce quality material in the future. Something about 'the past isn't an indicator of future success' or something like that. When it comes to Possessed it's the vocals that would be the hardest to replace (see: impossible). While one can never be sure a project like this will come together and ultimately give us good results, at the very least it's closed-minded to just dismiss it entirely.

Anyone want to throw down their best 'one original member' examples?

It's not just a matter of them being able to play, it also has to do with the specific time period in which Possessed released their stuff and the fact that they haven't done anything new in 25+ years. The fact that the people that were able to conjure the magic during those albums aren't there anymore. What are they going to play after so many years and without the same heads working together? It's the same with Carcass, an album without Ken Owen?! Know what I mean?

I was very excited for Mechina's Empyrean, which came out on New Year's Day. I was not at all disappointed and am proud to have it as my first 2013 album.

The one that sticks out in my mind the most right now is Dark Tranquillity. I've been interested in hearing something new from them for a while now. They may not be the most technical, or the most beautiful at this point, but they just might still be the greatest surviving practitioner of their form. Their massive tour in support of We Are the Void finally ended. I hope to get a new full-length by mid-year.

I may be hoping for too much to expect a new full-length from Agalloch, considering their four-year track record. I heard somewhere that they were interested in writing a bit more frequently, so maybe something might come late this year. But then, they just got done with Faustian Echoes and Haughm tends to spend a lot of his free time doing folk/ambient collaborations, so who knows?

(Not that any of the above-mentioned material is not good, but you get my point.)

I could see In Flames squeezing something into the end of the year, but I'm not holding my breath for it.

I am, of course, excited for Cult of Luna's Vertikal, and have just made pre-orders of the deluxe album, the LP, and the t-shirt. \m/

I'd love to be treated to some new material by Void of Silence, but I don't honestly know what they're up to. I still wish that Nemtheanga had stayed with the band. Not that Johnson doesn't bring his own vocal anguish to a most sombre mix; it's just that Nemtheanga has the perfect cleans for the post-apocalyptic wasteland of a soundscape that they create

Also very excited for In Vain's coming follow-up to Mantra. How Norwegians do so well at evoking an old western-style mood is beyond me, but they're fucking good at it.

I'll probably think of more later.

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I believe it was Confucius who said "Life is merely a series of intervals in which one waits for the next Agalloch album."

I've seen advertisements by Century Media that state that there will be a Watain album out this year. Obviously, that'll have to be taken with a pinch of salt, but if Century's advertising it then it probably will be true.

Someone claiming to be Maniac Neil says in the comments to this youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWz7QqoA68Y) that Frightmare is NOT done yet and that he will focus on a new Frightmare album after the next Blood Freak album. Hopefully that means a new Blood Freak album in 2013, and maybe Frightmare in 2014!

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Frightmare is NOT done. There's a new album in the works. Hiatus does not mean﻿ done. I've been busy with Blood Freak the last few years. after the next BF album i'm gonna focus on the third Frightmare album. the haters can eat my uncut ero style cock.

Fuckin' A. Best news I've heard in a while. A new Frightmare would totally be awesome. Hopefully Gurge will do split vox with Neil, and complete the chaos effect BBB had...such an intense catchy wall of sound on that album. Listening to that album is like trying to dodge stabs and slashes from Cropsy's garden sheers. HA!

New Blood Freak is welcomed as well. Hopefully, he can add a little bit more B-Movie references this time around...Mindscraper was just a little too straight forward for me. I enjoy listening to it every now and again, but I don't spin it nearly as much as I do Multiplex Massacre and Live Fast...

As far as other albums I'm looking forward to...new Nokturnal Mortum (read today), Myrkgrav, interested in new Darkthrone and Carcass...Summoning and isn't Inquisition said to have a new album out this year?

As far as other albums I'm looking forward to...new Nokturnal Mortum (read today), Myrkgrav, interested in new Darkthrone and Carcass...Summoning and isn't Inquisition said to have a new album out this year?

Yes. They've only just begun the songwriting for it coming off of touring but I'd say a new album this year is certain.

I`m excited about a lot of the same stuff that most of you are but what I really want this year is some new Infernal War, Lost Soul, and Spectral Mortuary. Amon Amarth always puts out quality stuff. Arsis I hope gives me something like A Celebration of Guilt. There EP was okay. Their guitarist has massive talent. Belphegor, Blood Bath, and maybe(maybe) Bolt Thrower? Yes please.

Epic black-metal very much in the vein of Summoning - perhaps it's a bit too similar in some respects, but regardless, from what I've heard it's very, very well done. The début is out in February and I'm looking forward to it within minutes of discovering the band.

Dream Death will finally be releasing a follow-up to their 1987 debut Journey into Mystery. Titled Somnium Excessum, they are currently wrapping up tracking this month for a potential release in March. Here's the cover art:

Leviathan will be releasing a new album called Scar Sight. I'm immensly curious as to what twisted direction he's going to take his music in now. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats is releasing a concept album called Mind Control which should pretty much be the best thing ever.

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So good. Makes me want to break up with my girlfriend, quit my job and never move out of my parents house. Just totally destroy my life for Satan.

Hope Immolation releases the next album soon this year since Majesty and Decay was probably my favorite death metal album released in 2010. Them and The Chasm too.

Yeah, there's been a strange lack of information about a new Immolation album recently. They wrapped up recording towards the end of summer/early fall last year (about the same time as Suffocation, actually) and there's been nothing since. I'd think Nuclear Blast would have put out some kind of information by now. I wouldn't put any hopes on a new album from The Chasm, though. Daniel's pretty much moved on towards another project whose name escapes me. He hasn't shelved the band entirely and has said that he'd record another album if/when he's inspired to, but nothing's on the horizon anytime soon.

Now that Sanctuary has, for all intents and purposes, signed with Century Media, I'd expect a formal announcement for their new album to be imminent.

I should probably research a bit more but I'm looking forward to the new Darkthrone as well as TBDM and Born of Osiris. And although its a pipe dream, I will also be praying to the metal gods for a new Necrophagist or an announcement that the band it officially calling it quits.

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I might be one of only very few, but the new Graveland album: Thunderbolt of the Gods. If it ever sees the light of day. I prefer later-day Graveland material to the classic stuff (blasphemy, I know) and so have looked forward to this since about 2010/early 2011 when it was first announced. I was expecting it sometime last year, but with all these EPs/splits and re-recordings Rob has been doing, as well as Lord Wind, it has been delayed again and again. I heard he is doing yet another split, this time with Nokturnal Mortum, so I guess it'll be even further back. Well no matter, one thing I will say about Rob, is he always puts in a lot of effort and passion into the music, so I'm sure it'll be grand.

Dream Death will finally be releasing a follow-up to their 1987 debut Journey into Mystery. Titled Somnium Excessum, they are currently wrapping up tracking this month for a potential release in March. Here's the cover art:

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According to recent updates on their Facebooks, Neoandertals and Waking the Cadaver are both going to have new albums out later this year. Can't wait to see what two of the world's most hated brutal death metal bands can come up with this time around.

New October Falls "The Plague Of A Coming Age" and Darkthrone "The Underground Resistance" are the only releases I've seen enough proof of to be able to believe I'll get my hands on them in 2013 so I'm most looking forward to those two...

New Destroyer 666, Abyssic Hate & Horna have been mentioned among others too but I know better than to get my hopes up just yet...

New Immolation is all I need. I don't dare be too excited about the upcoming Horna, as both Baptism and Behexen disappointed this year.

Thankfully the Baptism album was overall much better than the preview track Esoteric Spheres. Still, Chalice of Death was crappy compared to the original version, and the production was overall quite lame.

I'm excited to see how pissed off people get over the new Darkthrone album.

Bingo.

Other than that, I can't really bring up anything someone else hasn't said in the thread. I'm now very busy with uni so I don't have time to get caught up in metal as much. But I'm definitely anticipating the new Black Sabbath, QOTSA, Darkthrone, and if what everyone else says is true, Mayhem, Immortal, Gorguts, Watain etc. new Wormed is right around the corner too \m/ We're also due for a Triptykon album... and a CHURCH OF MISERY DAMIT...